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The Young Master from Amir Lyles

Check out Amir Lyles’ cartoon The Young Master, a multi-culti mashup that reflects the ways that hip-hop culture has incorporated Japanese martial arts and manga and Zen into American street belligerence. Lyles adds his own Rastafarian ideas, values and imagery and voila, let the new age begin. The video also incorporates some of the charm [...]

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Amir Lyles’ peaceable kingdom

A welcome house of another sort is the place where Germantown artist Amir Mark Lyles lives. To call it Lyles’ house is somewhat misleading, since he’s a part of a complex organism, a web of love that includes Lyles’ life partner Naeemah Patterson and their five children, ages 5 to 11. They all live together [...]

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People we love in places we love that are not Philadelphia!

If you’re on the road this summer, or hanging out far and wide, we have some tips here of Philadelphia artists who are all over the place.
Italy to Cyprus by way of L.A.

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